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09 Jun 23

Taiwan deploys robotic vehicles to help tackle mosquito problem

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In an effort to slow down the spread of the dengue disease, researchers at Kaohsiung city, Taiwan, have used robotic vehicles to identify and eliminate the breeding sources of Aedes mosquitoes - with great results. The study was carried out by a team at the Taiwan National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control…

09 Jun 23

Balancing profit, purpose, and planet: A must-see talk at TNW Conference

Computer & Information Technology

Lubomila Jordanova and Jamie Crummie will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amsterdam. If you want to experience the event (and say hi to our editorial team!), we’ve got something special for our loyal readers. Use the promo code READ-TNW-25 and get a 25% discount…

09 Jun 23

Holy Wow, Apple’s Vision Pro Is Full of Pixels

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Apple announced the Vision Pro, its first augmented reality (AR) headset, at its 5 June WWDC keynote. The headset contains two leading-edge Micro-OLED displays packing an incredible 23 million pixels—nearly three times as many as a 4K display. AR/VR display quality has improved in leaps and bounds since the original…

09 Jun 23

Pride Month 2023: See more than 1,000 rare Ballroom photos for the first time

Computer & Information Technology

Google Arts & Culture shares the largest collection of Ballroom archival material in one place.

09 Jun 23

Windfall tax to stop if oil prices fall further, government says

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The UK government has announced it will remove the 75 per cent windfall tax on oil and gas companies if the average price of oil falls to or below $71.40 per barrel for two consecutive quarters, and the average price of gas falls to under 54p. On Friday morning, Brent…

09 Jun 23

EU pours €8B of state aid into chips and microelectronics

Computer & Information Technology

The EU has approved an €8.1bn state aid package to boost the development of chips, aiming to strengthen the bloc’s microelectronics and comms sector. The subsidy falls under the framework of “Important Projects of Common European Interest” (IPCEI) — an initiative that provides easier access to public funds. The IPCEI…

09 Jun 23

Inside Google DeepMind’s approach to AI safety

Computer & Information Technology

This article features an interview with Lila Ibrahim, COO of Google DeepMind. Ibrahim will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amsterdam. If you want to experience the event (and say hi to our editorial team!), we’ve got something special for our loyal…

09 Jun 23

Meet the queer journalist making a more inclusive news industry in India

Computer & Information Technology

Ragamalika Karthikeyan, Editor at The News Minute, shares her story as a queer journalist and how her and her team are working on a project ‘Inqlusive Newsrooms’, to dri…

09 Jun 23

Uncommon bags €28M to scale lab-grown meat using RNA technology

Computer & Information Technology

Global livestock contributes 14.5% of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. Our food systems need a significant revamp, not to say a revolution, if we are to have any chance of feeding a growing population while also making sure there is still a planet that is worth populating at all. Some…

09 Jun 23

Intel Is All-In on Back-Side Power Delivery

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

There’s a lot of risk in deploying new technology for cutting edge computer chips. So Intel executives were understandably cautious in executing a plan that next year simultaneously introduces both a new transistor—RibbonFET—and a new way of powering it—PowerVia.To take some of the risk out of this high-wire act, the…